"Years... 100 Movie Quotes"".) According to the mission transcript, the actual words uttered by Jack Swigert were ""Hey, we've got a problem here"" (talking over Haise, who had started ""Okay, Houston""). Ground control responded by saying ""This is Houston, say again please."" Jim Lovell then repeated, ""Houston, we've had a problem."" One other incorrect dialogue is after the re-entry blackout. In the movie, Tom Hanks (as Lovell) says ""Hello Houston... this is ""Odyssey""... it's good to see you again."" In the actual re-entry, the Command Module's transmission was finally acquired by a Sikorsky SH-3D Sea King recovery aircraft which then"
"""Apollo 13"", a 1995 film directed by Ron Howard. The couple describes a 1969 film—never specifically named—in which an astronaut in an Apollo spacecraft ""named Jim"" faces mortal peril. The couple says the film gave Lovell's wife nightmares. Her experience inspired a dream sequence in ""Apollo 13"". There were some discrepancies between real-life procedures and what is shown in the film. For instance, several scenes show various people communicating directly with the astronauts in space. In actuality, only CAPCOM (an astronaut) and astronauts' wives would have been permitted to communicate with the spacecraft, all others in MOCR and AFLCC would"
"Lost Moon Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (published in paperback as Apollo 13), is a non-fiction book first published in 1994 by astronaut James Lovell and journalist Jeffrey Kluger, about the failed April 1970 Apollo 13 lunar landing mission which Lovell commanded. The book is the basis of the 1995 film adaptation ""Apollo 13"", directed by Ron Howard. Apollo 13 was the third mission of the Apollo program intended to land men on the Moon. An explosion of an onboard liquid oxygen tank in the Service Module, when the craft was close to reaching the Moon, crippled"
"based on Lovell's book ""Lost Moon"". Lovell himself makes a cameo in this movie, playing the captain of the USS ""Iwo Jima"" at the end of the film. In 1998, actor Tim Daly portrayed Lovell in portions of the HBO miniseries ""From the Earth to the Moon"". The film depicts Lovell during his missions aboard Gemini 12, Apollo 8, and Apollo 13, though he is not seen on screen during the latter mission. Lovell is one of the astronauts featured in the book and documentaries ""In the Shadow of the Moon"" and ""When We Left Earth"". On November 13, 2008,"
"the 1995 film ""Apollo 13""—reunited him with Ron Howard. Critics generally applauded the film and the performances of the entire cast, which included actors Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, and Kathleen Quinlan. The movie also earned nine Academy Award nominations, winning two. Later that year, Hanks starred in Disney/Pixar's CGI-animated hit film ""Toy Story"", as the voice of Sheriff Woody. Hanks made his directing debut with his 1996 film ""That Thing You Do!"" about a 1960s pop group, also playing the role of a music producer. Hanks and producer Gary Goetzman went on to create Playtone, a"
"January 1, 1991. Lovell, a recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, later served as the President of the National Eagle Scout Association in the mid-1990s. He was also recognized by the Boy Scouts of America with their prestigious Silver Buffalo Award. Along with Jeffrey Kluger, Lovell wrote a book about the Apollo 13 mission, ""Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13"". It was the basis for the Ron Howard movie ""Apollo 13"". Lovell's first impression on being approached about the film was that Kevin Costner would be a good choice to portray him, given the physical resemblance, but"
"supply and electric power, forcing NASA's flight controllers to abort the Moon landing, and turning the mission into a struggle to get the three men home safely. Howard went to great lengths to create a technically accurate movie, employing NASA's technical assistance in astronaut and flight controller training for his cast, and obtaining permission to film scenes aboard a reduced gravity aircraft for realistic depiction of the ""weightlessness"" experienced by the astronauts in space. Released to cinemas in the United States on June 30, 1995, ""Apollo 13"" was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture (winning for Best Film"
"Homer Hickam Homer Hadley Hickam Jr. (born February 19, 1943) is an American author, Vietnam veteran, and a former NASA engineer who trained the first Japanese astronauts. His 1998 memoir ""Rocket Boys"" (also published as ""October Sky"") was a ""New York Times"" Best Seller and was the basis for the 1999 film ""October Sky"". Hickam's body of written work also includes several additional best-selling memoirs and novels, including the ""Josh Thurlow"" historical fiction novels and his 2015 best-selling ""Carrying Albert Home: The Somewhat True Story of a Man, his Wife, and her Alligator"". His books have been translated into many"
"Tom Hanks was cast in the role. In order to prepare, Hanks visited Lovell and his wife at their home in Texas and even flew with Lovell in his private airplane. In the film, Lovell has a cameo as the captain of the USS ""Iwo Jima"", the naval vessel that led the operation to recover the Apollo 13 astronauts after their successful splashdown. Lovell can be seen as the naval officer shaking Hanks' hand, as Hanks speaks in voice-over, in the scene where the astronauts come aboard the ""Iwo Jima"". Filmmakers initially offered to make Lovell's character an admiral aboard"
"the second Apollo 17 EVA. The orange soil then becomes the major driver of the plot of the rest of the story. The 2005 novel ""Tyrannosaur Canyon"" by Douglas Preston opens with a depiction of the Apollo 17 moonwalks using quotes taken from the official mission transcript. Additionally, there have been fictional astronauts in film, literature and television who have been described as ""the last man to walk on the Moon,"" implying they were crew members on Apollo 17. One such character was Steve Austin in the television series ""The Six Million Dollar Man"". In the 1972 novel ""Cyborg"", upon"
"interviewed 11 Apollo Program astronauts for this publication. She also co-founded Pepper Pike Graphix, an educational comic book publishing company that produced “Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11,” used by filmmaker and actor Tom Hanks as a source of research for the HBO miniseries, ""From the Earth to the Moon (miniseries)"" . Conrad co-authored her husband’s posthumous biography, ""Rocketman: Astronaut Pete Conrad's Incredible Ride to the Moon and Beyond"", with Space Cowboys screenwriter, Howard Klausner. ""Rocketman"" was published by Penguin Books USA in 2005. Following Pete Conrad’s death after a motorcycle accident in 1999, Nancy Conrad shared Pete’s story with"
"the electrical power generation and propulsion systems for the Command Module ""Odyssey"". This necessitated the abort of the lunar landing, and placed the lives of astronauts Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise in serious jeopardy. The mission became famous for the safe return of the men, made possible by the flight controllers' resourceful adaptation of the electrical, propulsion, and life support systems of the LM (Lunar Module) ""Aquarius"" as a ""lifeboat"". Lost Moon Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (published in paperback as Apollo 13), is a non-fiction book first published in 1994 by astronaut James Lovell and"
"Verne science fiction novel ""From the Earth to the Moon"". Hanks appears in every episode, introducing each of the first eleven. The last episode is represented in a pseudo-documentary format narrated by Blythe Danner, interspersed with a reenactment of the making of Georges Méliès' film ""Le Voyage dans la Lune"". Hanks narrates and appears in these scenes as Méliès' assistant. The miniseries has a fairly large cast, driven in part by the fact that it portrays 30 of the 32 astronauts who flew, or were preparing to fly, the twelve missions of the Apollo program. (The only two Apollo astronauts"
"miniseries ""From the Earth to the Moon"", where he advised both Tom Hanks and the various directors, as well as answered questions from the actors on set. In 2000 he was briefly engaged to British television newscaster Anna Ford. In 2003–2004 he consulted on the BBC TV series """". In 2004, he and former Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov began work on a dual biography / history of the ""Space Race"" between the United States and the Soviet Union. The book, """" was published in 2006. Neil Armstrong and Tom Hanks both wrote introductions to the book. He currently resides in"
"Jeffrey Kluger Jeffrey Kluger (born 1954) is a senior writer at ""Time"" magazine and author of nine books on various topics, such as ""The Narcissist Next Door"" (2014); ""Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio"" (2005); ""The Sibling Effect"" (2011); and ""Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13"" (1994). The latter work was the basis for Ron Howard's film ""Apollo 13"" (1995). He is also the author of two books for young adults: ""Nacky Patcher and the Curse of the Dry-Land Boats"" (2007) and ""Freedom Stone"" (2011). Kluger attended Pikesville High School in Pikesville, Maryland, a northwest"
"The film, renamed in 2013 as ""Earthrise: The First Lunar Voyage"", centered on the events that led up to NASA's Apollo 8 mission. Anders is interviewed in a chapter of the book ""No More Worlds to Conquer"" by Chris Wright. The chapter is roughly evenly split between his life in Apollo and his later corporate life. The book's front cover is the famous ""Earthrise"" image taken by Anders. Anders appeared with fellow NASA astronauts Frank Borman and Jim Lovell on the C-Span book review, Rocket Men. He confirmed the story that he had fallen asleep while awaiting the Apollo 8"
"given bionic parts after being revived from his centuries-long coma. Caidin's 1964 novel, ""Marooned"", about an American astronaut who becomes stranded in space and NASA's subsequent attempt to rescue him, is based on Project Mercury. The book, adapted into a 1969 movie of the same name, stars Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, James Franciscus, Gene Hackman, with Caidin making a brief appearance as a reporter describing the arrival of the rescue vehicle at Cape Canaveral. The movie was based on Project Apollo and Caidin revised his novel in 1969, as a movie novelization, to reflect the change. World War"
"was published by Dell Comics in October 1967. Countdown (1968 film) Countdown is a 1968 science fiction film directed by Robert Altman, based on the novel ""The Pilgrim Project"" by Hank Searls. It stars James Caan and Robert Duvall as astronauts vying to be the first American to walk on the Moon as part of a crash program to beat the Soviet Union. In the late 1960s, astronauts training in an Apollo simulator have their session ended early. They grumble about it, but their commander, Chiz (Robert Duvall), knows the reason for the abort: the Pilgrim Program. The Russians will"
"makes a brief appearance in the film as a reporter describing the arrival of the X-RV at Cape Canaveral. He made ""Marooned"" the subject of a self-reference in a later novel, ""Cyborg IV"". The main character, Steve Austin, says of a situation: ""A friend of mine wrote about it. Did you ever read the book ""Marooned""?"" Astronaut Jim Lovell and his wife Marilyn Lovell referred to the film years later in a special interview. Their recollection is shared as a feature on the DVD release of ""Apollo 13"", a 1995 film directed by Ron Howard. The couple describes a 1969"
"on his service aboard the USS ""Algol"" with Henry Fonda's eponymous character being based on Hubbard himself and James Cagney's tyrannical character based on the commander of the ""Algol"". In a February 1956 lecture, Hubbard told Scientologists: ""There was a story made about that vessel [the ""Algol""], by the way. It was called ""Mister Roberts"". You may have seen this picture or read the book."" According to a Church of Scientology publication, George Malko comments that ""this [claim] has never been substantiated"" and notes that the author of the original novel, Thomas Heggen, ""would only say about Roberts: ""He is"
"his book ""Adventures in the Screen Trade"" that ""Phil [Kaufman]'s heart was with Yeager. And not only that, he felt the astronauts, rather than being heroic, were really minor leaguers, mechanical men of no particular quality, not great pilots at all, simply the product of hype."" Critics, however, generally were favorable toward the film. The Right Stuff (book) The Right Stuff is a 1979 book by Tom Wolfe about the pilots engaged in U.S. postwar research with experimental rocket-powered, high-speed aircraft as well as documenting the stories of the first Project Mercury astronauts selected for the NASA space program. ""The"
"succeed in carrying out their mission. They launch the missile and Earth is saved. The book was reviewed by The book was adapted from the screenplay for the movie ""Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"", which was written by Irwin Allen and Charles Bennett from a story conceived by Irwin Allen. The movie also inspired a TV series ""Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"", which ran on ABC from 1964 September 14 to 1968 March 31. Notes Sources The book is listed at Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (novel) Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"
"Apollo 23 Apollo 23 is a book in the ""Doctor Who"" New Series Adventures. It was the first book in the series to feature the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond as his companion. The Doctor and Amy arrive at a shopping centre much to The Doctor's disappointment. When arriving they discover that an American astronaut has appeared out of thin air. They both decide to materialize to the moon which they successfully do and find the secret Base Diana. Investigating, they learn of a plot by the evil Talerians to take over the Earth by possessing human bodies. The Doctor"
"an astronaut. Wolfe wrote that the book was inspired by the desire to find out why the astronauts accepted the danger of space flight. He recounts the enormous risks that test pilots were already taking, and the mental and physical characteristics—the titular ""right stuff""—required for and reinforced by their jobs. Wolfe likens the astronauts to ""single combat warriors"" from an earlier era who received the honor and adoration of their people before going forth to fight on their behalf. The 1983 film ""The Right Stuff"" is adapted from the book. In 1972 Jann Wenner, the editor of ""Rolling Stone,"" assigned"
"Space Odyssey The ""Space Odyssey"" series is a series of science fiction novels by the writer Arthur C. Clarke. Two of the novels have been made into feature films, released in 1968 and 1984 respectively. Two of Clarke's early short stories may also be considered part of the series. Short stories: Novels: Comic books: It was reported on Yahoo Entertainment in 2000 that M.G.M. and Tom Hanks were in discussions regarding turning both ""2061: Odyssey Three"" and ""3001: The Final Odyssey"" into movies (Hanks would reportedly play Frank Poole in the ""3001"" film). An update in 2001 stated that there"
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a 2005 British-American science fiction comedy film directed by Garth Jennings, based upon previous works in the media franchise of the same name, created by Douglas Adams. It stars Martin Freeman, Sam Rockwell, Mos Def, Zooey Deschanel and the voices of Stephen Fry and Alan Rickman. Adams co-wrote the screenplay with Karey Kirkpatrick but died in 2001, before production began; the film is dedicated to him. The film grossed over $100 million worldwide. The film begins with a Broadway-style number, ""So Long, and Thanks for All"
"in the futuristic Korea section. In addition, minor members of the cast also appear in more than one segment, including Martin Wuttke, Brody Nicholas Lee, Alistair Petrie, and Sylvestra Le Touzel. The film is based on the 2004 novel ""Cloud Atlas"" by David Mitchell. Filmmaker Tom Tykwer revealed in January 2009 his intent to adapt the novel and said he was working on a screenplay with the Wachowskis, who optioned the novel. By June 2010, Tykwer had asked actors Natalie Portman, Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, James McAvoy, and Ian McKellen to star in ""Cloud Atlas"". By April 2011, the Wachowskis"
"Space Trophy for 1977 (1978); the SETP's Iven C. Kincheloe Award (1978); and the Air Force Association's David C. Schilling Award (1978). Bill Paxton played the role of Haise in the 1995 film ""Apollo 13"". Haise enjoyed the movie and saw it multiple times. Adam Baldwin also played Haise in the 1998 HBO miniseries ""From the Earth to the Moon"". Fred Haise Fred Wallace Haise Jr. ( ; born November 14, 1933) is an American former NASA astronaut, fighter pilot with the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Air Force and test pilot. He is one of only 24 people"
"by the crew of Apollo 15. Accounts of Belyayev's life and space career appear in the 2003 book ""Fallen Astronauts"" and the 2007 book Into That Silent Sea, both by Colin Burgess. Belyayev is also used as a character in Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens 2005 novel, ""Freefall"", in which he is the first person to land on the moon, hours before Apollo 11. Pavel Belyayev appeared on various stamps. In 1965, he appeared on stamps from the Soviet Union, Cuba, Bulgaria, East Germany, and Hungary. In 1966, he appeared on stamps from Bulgaria, Mali, and Mauritania. A crater on the"
"5 hours and 18 minutes in French language, read by Arnauld Le Ridant, is available by Hardigan. Apollo 23 Apollo 23 is a book in the ""Doctor Who"" New Series Adventures. It was the first book in the series to feature the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond as his companion. The Doctor and Amy arrive at a shopping centre much to The Doctor's disappointment. When arriving they discover that an American astronaut has appeared out of thin air. They both decide to materialize to the moon which they successfully do and find the secret Base Diana. Investigating, they learn of"
"Ride Way. Lovell's formal education consisted of the following: Lovell's awards and decorations include: About a month after the return to Earth of Apollo 13, Lovell and his crewmates, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert, appeared on ""The Tonight Show"" with host Johnny Carson. The introduction of this segment of the show is featured on ""Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13"" on the single disc DVD version of the movie. In 1976, Lovell made a cameo appearance in the Nicolas Roeg movie ""The Man Who Fell to Earth"". In 1995, actor Tom Hanks portrayed Lovell in the film ""Apollo 13"","
"October"", based on the Tom Clancy's novel of the same title. At the end of the successful rescue mission for ""Apollo 13"", two SH-3 Sea Kings, historically painted as Helos ""66"" and ""406"", retrieve the astronauts from their spacecraft after splashdown in the 1995 Ron Howard film. The 1954 film ""The Bridges at Toko-Ri"", based on the 1953 James A. Michener novella of the same title, opens and closes with scenes of a U.S. Navy Sikorsky HO3S-1 of utility helicopter squadron HU-1 operating from an in pilot rescue and recovery during the Korean War. In the 1954 science fiction film"
"spacecraft for their tenth cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station would be named S.S. ""John Young"". In the 1995 film, ""Apollo 13"", Young was played by Ben Marley. In the 1998 HBO miniseries, ""From the Earth to the Moon"", he was played by John Posey. Young is one of the astronauts featured in the documentary film and book, ""In the Shadow of the Moon""; the Discovery Channel series, """"; and the documentary film, ""The Wonder of It All"". John Young (astronaut) John Watts Young (September 24, 1930 – January 5, 2018) was an American astronaut, naval officer and"